Couldn't you also just do something like:
<dir name="my root dir">
<dir name="my child dir">
<dir name="deep dir"/>
</dir>
<file name="first file in dir"/>
<file name="second file in dir"/>
</dir>
I wrote a similar thing and this is the format I used (with some extra
attributes for more information about the files and dirs).
Kevin
On Feb 18, 2008 11:09 AM, Mukul Gandhi <gandhi.mukul@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 18, 2008 8:27 PM, Nicholas Sushkin <nsushkin@openfinance.com> wrote:
> > In many cases the files and directories are named after music pieces and
> > created by a music management program from the music title. Those names
> > contain a lot of spaces, quotes, punctuation, non-ASCII and other
> > characters.
>
> Thanks for the information. I have not closely looked at music file
> names. It surely sounds vastly incompatible to XML name rules.
>
> The problem I was having is - Given a root directory, I needed to
> generate a XML hierarchy depicting the file system hierarchy, starting
> from the given root. I wrote a recursive Java program and converted
> the information to XML, using Xerces DOM implementation.
>
> Some of the directory/file names didn't conform to the XML name
> conventions. Like, some directory names started with numeric. Some
> contained characters like - (hyphen), ~ etc.
>
> Would somebody agree with me, that XML names should allow such rules?
> My problem could serve as a use case ...
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Mukul Gandhi
>
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